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Vision Chips
Custom mixed-signal vision silicon with sensing architectures tailored to specialized machine-vision requirements.
Advanced Vision Technology
From Silicon
to Systems
Centeye develops custom vision silicon, compact low-power sensor assemblies, embedded vision systems, and supporting technology for integration into next-generation products and platforms.
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Vision Sensors
Compact sensor assemblies integrating Centeye silicon with optics, electronics, and embedded processing.
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Embedded Vision Systems
Application-specific sensing systems developed for integration into customer products, equipment, and platforms.
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Supporting Technology
Firmware, computer vision, signal processing, and integration support developed around the sensing hardware.
A Different Design Approach
Designed as a system, not a stack of components.
Centeye works across the sensing stack, allowing silicon, optics, electronics, embedded processing, and supporting software to be co-designed around the application. This enables combinations of size, weight, power, and performance that are difficult to achieve using conventional camera and processing architectures. Centeye sensing and embedded perception can operate without a GPU or powerful host computer.
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Optics
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Sensor Hardware
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Embedded Processing
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System Integration
Applications
Where Centeye Fits
Centeye develops specialized sensing and embedded vision technology for problems where conventional camera-and-compute architectures become inefficient, difficult to integrate, or physically impractical.
Explore applications →When Compute, Power, or Bandwidth Are Constrained
Purpose-designed sensing and selective acquisition reduce the visual data moved and processed downstream, matching perception to constrained compute, power, or bandwidth.
When Activity, Motion, or Flow Needs to Be Measured at the Edge
Centeye sensing and embedded processing can measure counts, flow, vibration, occupancy, activity, and other physical quantities locally at the edge.
When Targets Are Small, Fast, or Difficult to Track
Specialized sensing architectures can support detection, trajectory estimation, cueing, and high-rate tracking without requiring conventional full-frame processing.
When Hazards Are Thin, Low-Contrast, or Easy to Miss
Application-specific sensing for wires, cables, branches, poles, netting, and other narrow structures that can be difficult for conventional perception pipelines.
When a Conventional Camera Module Is Physically Too Large
Miniature and sub-gram sensing approaches for embedded, wearable, robotic, edge, and remote systems constrained by mass, volume, heat, wiring, or power.
When the Needed Output Is Not an Image
Sensors and embedded processing can be designed around task-relevant outputs such as motion, range, trajectory, location, or confidence rather than producing unnecessary image data.
Technology in Action
Proven under demanding constraints.
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pixels processed
8-bit
microcontroller
Low-Compute Physical Analytics
This early roadway traffic-counting experiment illustrates how task-specific sensing can extract useful physical-world information with minimal computation.
Vision Under Extreme SWaP Constraints
Centeye sensing and embedded processing technology enabled fully onboard perception and reactive obstacle avoidance on a highly constrained nano-UAS platform.
View demonstration →Adaptive High-Speed Vision
Flexible focal-plane sampling enables high-rate tracking and selective acquisition without continuously processing a full high-resolution image.
High Dynamic Range Sensing
Centeye vision sensors can preserve useful scene information across extreme illumination differences, including bright sunlight and deep shadow within the same field of view.
25+
Years of advanced vision R&D
60+
Custom vision chips developed
FIRST
Neuromorphic vision sensor flown on a small drone
by Centeye's founder
Centeye technology has been developed and demonstrated through customer-funded development, nine Phase II SBIR/STTR programs, and advanced research with government, industry, and academic partners.
Selected organizations Centeye has worked with
Industry
AeroVironment · Lockheed Martin · Raytheon · Boeing · Aurora Flight Sciences · Nautilus Defense
Research
Harvard University · MIT · UC Berkeley · University of Maryland · University of Michigan · UMass Amherst · CU Boulder
Government
DARPA · U.S. Air Force · IARPA · DTRA · U.S. Navy · U.S. Army · National Science Foundation
Working With Centeye
From technology insertion to custom development.
Integrate
Incorporate existing Centeye chips, sensors, assemblies, or supporting technology into a customer product or platform.
Adapt
Modify existing sensing hardware, optics, electronics, firmware, packaging, or interfaces for application-specific requirements.
Develop
Develop new application-specific vision chips, sensor assemblies, or embedded vision systems when existing solutions are insufficient.
Transition & Supply
Support productization, manufacturing transition, licensing, and ongoing supply of components or assemblies as appropriate.
Latest News
Centeye at IROS 2026
Geoffrey Barrows to Speak at IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-Scale Autonomy
Centeye founder Geoffrey Barrows will give an industry talk at the IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-Scale Autonomy in Pittsburgh on October 1, 2026.
His talk, “What can you do with a few thousand pixels?”, will examine how purpose-designed vision sensing and low-information-rate approaches can reduce downstream processing requirements for severely resource-constrained autonomous systems.
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